Always opens as blank

Hi,

Using Acad R13; whenever I double click an autocad drawing from
explorer, Autocad is booting up but not opening the file I clicked. All
I get is a blank page.

Any tips on how to remedy this?

TIA,
Rod.

 

Try opening AutoCAD, then use File-Open to navigate to the file and
open it.
It is a bad practice to open a DWG file from Explorer. It will
invariably lead to drawing corruption at some point. You are depending
on Windows to guess the correct program, initialize and open that
program, and then open your drawing. That might work with docs and
pictures and web pages, but is a problem with drawing files.

Daryl Stockton

 

Since when? I have many users who open drawings using this method and
they have never had any problems.

 

I was also struck by this comment. Windows doesn't guess-it is instructed.

 

Daryl - Someone gave you some very bad information. Your statement is
incorrect and misleading.

john

 

Yeah, you have been misinformed - to correctly associate file
extensions, hold down 'Shift', and right-click on the DWG file - select
'Open with . .' , and when the dialog box comes up, select 'AutoCAD
Application', then check the box titled 'Always use the selected program
to open this kind of file'. Should fix you up <G>

Regards,

Ivan the Lurker